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Thanks! Our story is well on its way now. First mission got a little dicey in places (pun intended!) but everything worked out (mostly) for the best, and our lancers are returning back to Far Station 12 this upcoming episode. Time to get that first license level!

Lancer RPG! Awesome blend of narrative pilot time and tactical mech combat. Plus the frames and built in lore are quite robust while still being malleable and evocative.

I knew as soon as I started doing the voice that I had made a wonderful mistake!

Sadly the show had to be canceled. I won't get into it, but simply not every group works well. Not the ttrpg lesson I was hoping to demonstrate, but an important one nonetheless. I'd like to say we'll pick this up again in a renewed season some day, but it wouldn't be IIVAN again. If you liked it though, please do check out the game and see if any of our other demo-play mini-series interest you while I work on setting up season 7.

I can imagine. I can't wait to give a go myself!

Thank you, friend! As much as I'm proud of my beard; I know, I know, its glorious with all its knots and ties and beads; but I'd love to hear how my tutorials or demo--plays inspired you to reach out into new games!

Correct, 'misses' do not detract from successes. The term 'miss' is simply the chosen nomenclature for this game; you could call them fails, blunders, perils, oppies, whatever suits you! Misses are important to distinguish, as opposed to neutral rolls (3-4), because they count towards Unfortunately Successes and Critical Failures." Indeed in Veil of the Void you can meet the difficulty value of a check, therefore achieving the intended action, but also roll 5 or more 'misses' and incurring an extra complication despite your success. This is called an Unfortunate Success. If you fail to meet or exceed the DV value *and* roll 5 or more misses, you indeed rolled a Critical Failure and the action fails spectacularly. When rolling with dice pools or 10 or more dice, which becomes fairly common on this game, you'd be surprise how often you interact with the various parts of the Critical Spectrum. And it makes for a great way to fail forward or succeed at cost; increasing cinematic tension and keeping the story moving forward.

Oh man, look at how old this is! We were such streaming babbies here! Glad you're enjoying it and I hope you continue to. It was an in-person game brought online by the plague, so we decided to stream it. We got through a couple awesome arcs but ultimately we decided that game nor most of the players were suited for long format streaming and I moved on to other projects. But I hope you continue to enjoy the tale. I have to say, though I'm biased, that the finale was quite spectacular!